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Primitive Cooking Methods
Whether we are backpacking or in a survival situation, having a knowledge of wilderness cooking techniques is important. We may not always have cooking equipment so lets go over some alternate methods.
Primitive Cooking methods we will cover include:
* Cooking over coals (ash cooking)
* Hot rock cooking
* Flat stone cooking
* Spit cooking or spit roast
* Clay cooking
Outdoor cooking without proper equipment can be a challenge. After practicing several methods, it can actually be fun. There are many ways to cook you food in the outdoors. Most people think of outdoor or survival cooking as simply using direct heat. Often we think about using skewers or simply hanging the food on a log.
Possible ways to cook the food are:
* radiative heat - grilling, roasting
* steam
* baking
For the scope of this article, we will cover methods without cooking equipment.
Cooking over coals (Ash cooking)
We are using fish (white Perch) for this method. We prepare the fish and use Kudzu leaves to wrap the fish. We always make sure to use non-poisonous leaves to protect the food.
The great thing about Kudzu is, we can use the Kudzu vine to wrap the leaves. We like to use multiple layers of leaves since they will be in a bed of hot coals. Note: The kudzu leaves are edible.
Once the fish is wrapped properly, we want to create a bed of coals. We spread the coals and make an indentation in the coals to lay the wrapped fish into. Use another stick to cover the fish with the coals.
Cook time would depend on the size of the fish. We cooked the perch for fifteen minutes and it was ready to eat.
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